Story Title: like a pop fly dropping from space
Fandom: Hockey RPF
Link(s): on AO3, Art by ninjaomelet
Summary: Zhenya signs the papers for his minor league contract three weeks before his seventeenth birthday and waits for his visa to arrive.

And waits.

And waits.

And waits, until finally, it arrives, just in time for the 2003 baseball season to end.

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A baseball AU.

Warnings:None
Characters: Evgeni Malkin, Sidney Crosby,
Original Characters
Pairings: Sidney Crosby/Evgeni Malkin
When I Started: January 2015
How I Lost My Shit: I just. I love baseball a lot and I love this pairing and I wanted it to be perfect. It started out very differently, but I knew how it ended.
How I Finished My Shit: Through a lot of toil and tears. I literally have five different versions of the story in my drafts folder, because I'd get stuck or change something and have to do major rewrites and starting over was easier than editing my current draft. I probably cut almost 10k from the original plot,
and I was editing right up until posting. But it's done now! And I'm pretty happy with it.